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Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of X11Clipboard


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Jan 20, 2022 3:02:05 PM (2 years ago)
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    33If you are having problems with !VirtualBox's shared clipboard functionality and are using either an X11-based host system or an X11-based guest then it is possible to enable logging functionality which will give you a glimpse into what is happening inside.  (Before doing this, check that the shared clipboard is actually enabled of course.  And be sure that you understand that X11 has two - or three - different clipboards, of which we only proxy one.)  This glimpse will be from the point of view of the X11 clipboard component, so if you are for example running a Windows guest on a Linux host, you will see when the host component thinks that the guest component has asked for the clipboard contents, but not directly when an application on the guest has asked the guest component for data.
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     5'''Important note: Make sure to check first that no third-party clipboard managers (like parcellite) are running anymore, neither on the host nor on the guest side. Some of those are known to cause trouble with !VBoxVirtual's shared clipboard functionality.'''
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    57For background, the shared clipboard mechanism is made up of a component running on the host and one running on the guest which communicate using !VirtualBox's host-to-guest communication mechanism.  The host component represents all applications running on the guest and vice versa.  Some examples of what this means are:

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